> Institutional policies may be one step closer to Stevan's desired goal,
> but they are still not 'implementation' - that's when people actually do
> it!

"69% of NOA authors [authors who have not yet made their work Open
Access] would willingly deposit their articles in an open repository
if required to do so (by their employer or funder): a further 8% would
do so but not willingly, and only 3% would not be prepared to do so."

A more recent author survey by Swan & Brown, likewise international,
finds that the percentage of authors who report they would self-archive
willingly if it were mandated by their employer or funder has since
risen from 69% to 79%.

A recent survey in South Africa likewise recommends a National Information Policy
to
"require that scholars make their research available via an Open
Access mode of scholarly communication."

De Beer, J. (2005) Open Access scholarly communication in South
Africa : a role for National Information Policy in the National
System of Innovation. Master's Thesis in Information Science at
Stellenbosch University
http://eprints.rclis.org/archive/00003110/

In other words, the natural extension of "Publish or Perish" in the Online
Age is: "...and Self-Archive to Flourish."

UNIVERSITIES: If you have adopted or plan to adopt an institutional
policy of providing Open Access to your own research article output,
please describe your policy at:
http://www.eprints.org/signup/sign.php